Summary
Kirsten Doyne is a Senior Director of Engineering in New York with 12 years of experience blending design sensibility and full‑stack web engineering to lead multi‑team CMS and product initiatives. At Dotdash Meredith she progressed from team lead to director and now senior director overseeing ~20 developers across time zones, driving CMS migrations, business development, and delivery. Her background uniquely combines professional architecture training with hands‑on web dev (General Assembly WDI), informing a strong product‑centric approach to UX and technical roadmap decisions. She has led major CMS conversions (C++ to Node.js, GWT to AngularJS) and acted as a bridge between design, product, support, and engineering to streamline publishing workflows. Known for pairing practical engineering with thoughtful design collaboration, she excels at translating complex editorial and operational needs into maintainable systems.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts Architecture, Bachelor of Arts Architecture at University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Web Development, Web Development at General Assembly
Architecture, Architecture at Kingston University